NP American campus - Article in Le Monde diplomatique

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CONFLICTS OF INTEREST ON THE CAMPUS

For sale: US academic integrity

by IBRAHIM WARDE

     Private enterprise is much taken with education, especially the
     universities. In the United States the race to get hold of academic
     disciplines that bring in the money has already increased conflicts
     of interest between research and business. Under cover of a
     'marketplace of ideas', the logic of the market could turn
     academics into entrepreneurs and endanger the unity of our
     universities.
     
           <http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2001/03/11academic>
     
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